CO129-113 - MacDonnell - 1866 [5-6] — Page 17

HongKong

Ne 29

18th May, 1866.

Governor

Sir Richard Grower MacDonnell.

to

Right Honorable

Edward Cardwell, M. P.

! Government House

Sighting of by gas

Additional expense of several hundreds per annum thrown

in

humler

Vjeto

intended for comitat

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f the nuns.

mant pr

Flarenal.

And then matte, ces will thus that

the Extimate has bax confully Framed with such

Can as

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lefeccier admits of.

Add that theesh it ans curtains.

judgment in en deth form to make a change. thes affecting the compuli If a for. it is clean

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17/7 344-447-

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In 6501/66.

Meme: N. 24.

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&& May.

1866.

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Let the Queryer Genual estimate the

cost of rendering all the lamps at Government Have

new converted: ints Gas Lamps,

available

auce mone

for oils

Of late the Gas has been

an intolerable

muisance, as it generates smoke and heat without light and cannot be word in a drought, as it flares up in a very disagreable The discomfort and bad smells are neay. such that I fear it will be imposible to "leave thing, as they are, for at present

we aw

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a position to use

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